Analysis & Commentary
US Drones Strike in Pakistan’s Shawal Valley
The US launched another drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today. Five "militants" are said to have been killed in the latest strike in an area known to serve as a launchpad...
Taliban Suicide Bomber Attacks US Base in Khost
The Taliban claimed credit for a suicide attack outside of a US base in eastern Afghanistan that is known to house CIA operatives who are hunting al Qaeda and other terrorist leaders across the border in Pakistan.
Afghan Policewoman Kills US Military Adviser Inside Interior Ministry
An Afghan policewoman gunned down a US military adviser inside the Interior Ministry today. The insider, or green-on-blue, attack is the first in nearly six weeks, and the first recorded by a female member...
Taliban Suicide Bomber Kills Pakistani Provincial Minister
The Taliban claimed credit for today's suicide attack in Peshawar that killed nine people, including Bashir Ahmed Bilour, the Minister for Local Government and Rural Development of Khyber...
The Last Men
Eleven years later, almost to the week, Griffis’s time in Afghanistan, along with that of the last of the additional forces sent there by President Obama in early 2010, came to an end. Charlie Troop pulled out...
‘Foreigners’ Reported Killed in US Drone Strike in Pakistan
The US launched its first airstrike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agencies in 11 days, killing four "militants," possibly inkling some foreigners. The remotely-piloted Predators...
ISAF Kills Another al Qaeda Commander in Kunar Raid
Coalition and Afghan special operations forces killed another al Qaeda leader in the remote, Taliban-controlled province of Kunar during a raid last week.
US Drone Strike Kills Another al Qaeda Commander in North Waziristan
The US killed another al Qaeda commander in a drone strike in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal agency of North Waziristan today. The remotely-piloted Predators or the more deadly Reapers fired several missiles...
Al Qaeda Religious Leader Thought Killed in US Drone Strike
A Kuwaiti who was a prominent member of al Qaeda's religious committee is thought to have been killed in a recent US drone strike in Pakistan's tribal areas. Two "contemporaries" of Khalid bin Abdul Rahman al Husainan...
Obama’s Greater Middle East
It’s difficult to recommend a new approach to the Greater Middle East when the overarching philosophy of Barack Obama’s first term lingers on. In 2008 the Illinois senator sincerely believed that the...
ISAF Launches 2 Raids Targeting al Qaeda-Linked Commanders
Yesterday the International Security Assistance Force conducted two raids targeting insurgent leaders with ties to al Qaeda inside Afghanistan. In the Watahpur district in Kunar province, Afghan and Coalition forces killed...
ISAF Kills IMU/Taliban District Commander in Afghan North
Coalition and Afghan forces killed a dual-hatted Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Taliban district commander during a raid in northern Afghanistan four days ago.
Taliban Suicide Assault Team Attacks US Airbase in Jalalabad
A Taliban suicide assault team attacked Forward Operating Base Fenty, a large airbase in Nangarhar in eastern Afghanistan, early this morning. The heavily armed Taliban assault team...
US Drones Kill 3 ‘Militants’ in 1st Strike in Pakistan in More Than a Month
The US killed three "militants," including "foreigners," in the first drone strike recorded in Pakistan in more than a month. The remotely piloted Predators or the more heavily armed Reapers...
Another IMU ‘Weapons Facilitator’ Captured in Northern Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces captured a "weapons facilitator" from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan during an operation in Kwajah district in Afghanistan's Takhar province yesterday.
Taliban, Tribal Leaders Work Together in North Waziristan
This article in Dawn highlights the close links between the local tribes in North Waziristan and the Taliban, specifically Taliban forces under Hafiz Gul Bahadar. The tribes and the Taliban formed a lashkar...
US Adds Pakistani Hawala, 2 Taliban Financiers to Terrorism List
The US Treasury Department added a Pakistani hawala, or money exchange, and two of its owners, to the lists of global terrorists and entities. Rahat Ltd., a Pakistan-based hawala, and its owner...
Taliban Claim Attacks Against Shia Worshipers in Pakistan
The Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan claimed credit for a suicide attack in Rawalpindi that killed 12 people as well as two bombings in Karachi that killed two more. The attacks in both cities, which took...
Pro-Taliban Pakistani Islamist Leader Targeted in Suicide Attack
The former leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a political party that supports the Taliban, was the target of a female suicide bomber in Pakistan's violence-ridden northwest. Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the former...
ISAF Data Show Insurgent Attacks, Civilian Casualties Increased in September
On Oct. 23, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) released updated figures on the violence in Afghanistan. The data cover the period through September 2012, and as in previous...
